Makes Me Shudder

EFFECTIVE Jan. 1, 1986, Sections 336.021 and 336.025, Florida Statutes, require the retail gasoline dealer to collect and remit the voted gas tax and the local option gas tax on motor fuels sold in Florida counties.

This legislation transfers the responsibility of collecting, reporting and remitting road taxes from the distributor to each gas station.

The bottom line is that the Department of Revenue will have to audit, process and redistribute collected funds from more than 10,000 retailers, as opposed to 400 bonded distributors. This will result in an increased workload of 2,500 percent.